Huge landfill in the Atlantic Ocean

In July 2009, scientists were stunned to find a landfill of about 696,621 square kilometers in the Pacific Ocean. And now scientists have discovered yet another huge landfill in the Atlantic.

Huge landfill in the Atlantic Ocean

Here scientists have found billions of plastic waste.

Kara Lavender Law, a marine research scientist in Massachusetss, said: 'Many people have heard about the landfill in the Pacific. But few people know about this landfill '.

These landfills are brought by certain currents to certain beaches. Scientists say that 70% of these landfills have melted into small fragments and this is what is harmful to the ecosystem.

Law's colleague used microscopic nets to collect tiny pieces of plastic that were floating in the ocean and they found about 250,000 pieces / km ² in the Atlantic landfill and 750,000 pieces / km ² at the landfill. Pacific.

Many fish or birds have eaten these pieces of plastic because they are mistaken for prey and they have died.